Activities at Oulton Park Care Home
Our teams are trained to enrich the lives of residents through stimulating the mind, body and soul, and taking the time to learn about each person to ensure everyone receives support that adds enrichment to their life.
We have a wonderful team here at Oulton Park and we all work together to provide a stimulating, active environment for our residents that live here. We are always looking for new and innovative ideas for our residents to be part of here, and our activities coordinator works very hard on planning and providing a stimulating busy schedule of activities, as well as assisting the residents with their daily living preferences. We have regular meetings with our families and residents to make sure we are providing things to suit their preferences. We as a home are registered with the National Activity Providers Association and strive to provide a person-centred approach for our residents here.
Louise Hunter-Hall
Hello my name is Louise, I am the life enrichment and activities coordinator at Oulton park care centre.
I joined Oulton Park late 2023 but I have worked in the care industry for over 20 years and I have a compassion for my role and work. During the 20years I have supported many different adults with different care needs including, nursing care, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, independent living and 1:1 needs. I have both my level 2&3 in care and level 2 in sign language.
At Oulton my role is to create and organise a range of engaging and meaningful activities. My role brings me a great deal of comfort and joy.
If I can just make 1 persons life better during my working day at Oulton Park then the day has been a success. I feel honoured, fortunate and blessed to do the job I do.
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Oulton Park Care Home
I wish for a blue dress
During one-one sessions, we learnt that Flo used to go ballroom dancing. It was wonderful to hear her stories, how she would dance the night away and how much she enjoyed dancing and still has such a great passion for it. During this discussion, Flo mentioned that in all her years of dancing she had never had a blue gown, which was her favourite colour, but she never got her own blue dress.
With this information we set about making this wish a reality. With weeks of planning, discussion and many alterations with help from different members of staff here at Oulton Park care centre, we have been able to transform this once blue jumpsuit into a dress, fit for a Queen ready for a ball and to dance the night away.
Let's go to the rugby - dreams come true!
The weather wasn't on our side, but that didn't stop us heading down to support our local team, Lowestoft and Yarmouth rugby club. When Gordon told us one of his wishes was to go and see a local rugby game, we set out to make this wish a reality. And his wish came true.
Taking in the atmosphere, enjoying a beer and watching the team win 85-7. It was a wonderful afternoon with some great company. Well played boys!
Valentine's Day Celebrations!
At Oulton Park care centre, we celebrated the day of love, friendship and kindness with a wonderful Valentine's coffee morning for our residents, where we enjoyed some wonderful tasty treats prepared by our amazing kitchen team and enjoyed some tasty biscuits decorated by the residents themselves.
For the afternoon, we relaxed whilst we watched two of the best love films of all time …. Romeo & Juliet, then Dirty Dancing, which the residents had picked to watch. It was a day full of love and smiles. Each resident received their very own valentine's card and a rose that will last forever.
Charles Dickens' Day
For Charles Dickens' Day we honoured him by doing a range of activities. Including watching one of his classic works on film 'Great Expectations'. We also read a few of his wonderful poems and discussed his life and work and the residents worked on making a wonderful display board full of facts about the author.
Charles Dickens created some of literature's best known fictional characters and is still regarded as one of the best novelists of the Victorian era.
International day of women and girls in science
Oulton park care centre celebrated international women and girls in science day. Led by our two wonderful students, we had an afternoon full of fun and exciting science experiments. We started with a demonstration of some experiments - lava lamps, dancing grapes, milk painting and skittles tye dye.
Then our wonderful resident, Gordon, volunteered to trial a mini volcano with bicarbonate of soda and vinegar. Which reacted well so we increased our measurements and took our very own homemade volcano outside to make a larger reaction, and it went off fantastically. It was great fun and we are looking forward to doing this again.
Pike Creations
Residents at Oulton Park care centre have been working hard over the last few months creating a piece of art in honour of arts in care home day.
After planning what they were going to create, looking at different inspiration from our local area to what media they were going to work with. The residents decided to go with a pike to represent Oulton Broad and the River Waveney. They slowly worked on it, building the picture up layer by layer and the results looked amazing.
